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this fine Miss Jig'g* of yours !" The Whalebone colt turned 

 out far better, He was christened ^'Long-waist/' and led 

 off well bj winning* what was then the great race of that 

 part of the country, the Gloucestershire Stakes at Chel- 

 tenham. He followed this up with other g'ood things 

 both during that and the next year. In the latter, in 

 fact, he came out a really great horse, carrying off the 

 Craven and Oatlands at Newmarket, with the gold 

 Cups — and they were gold cups in those times — at Win- 

 chester, Cheltenham, Oxford, Burderop, and Warwick. 

 Longwaist also fig-ured, though unsuccessftdly, in two yet 

 more memorable races — for the Cups at Ascot and at 

 Doncaster. In the first of these his opponent was Bi- 

 zarre, ridden by Arnull, while Robinson was on Long- 

 waist. A horse called Streatham was started merely to 

 make play for Lord George Cavendish ; but Boyce, who 

 was on him, forced the running so much that at the last 

 turn he seemed to have the two cracks both safe, and sang 

 out that he was winning ! They managed to catch him, 

 however, and a terribly severe and tiring race finished in 

 favour of Bizarre. At Doncaster — it was in Memnon's 

 Leger year — the set-to between Sam Day on Mr. Craven's 

 horse, and George jNi elson on Lottery, with Cedric, Figaro, 

 and others behind them, was said to have been one of the 

 most magnificent ever seen ; but again the decree was half 

 a neck against Longwaist. Still the performance was 

 good enough to confirm his repute as a race-horse ; and 

 on the strength of it, the renowned John M^'^tton, of Hal- 

 ston, gave three thousand guineas for him. He ran a 

 good stout horse for two or three years after this ; but 

 Mr. Craven himself stuck to it that " Longwaist was not 

 within seven pounds as good a one as the public thought 

 him." He was, though, a neat one to look at ; long and 



